Integrated brown field services provider, Petra Energy Berhad through its wholly owned subsidiary, Petra Resources Sdn Bhd has been awarded the Topside Maintenance execution services for the Gumusut Kakap floating production system by Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Ltd. Under the terms of the contrac
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just published the latest issue of Terra et Aqua, the official quarterly publication of IADC. The magazine is supported solely by the IADC as a service to the world-wide dredging community and represents IADC’s commitment to the highest
DSC Dredge Director of Technological Sales/Support, John “Sonny” Lightsey, will speak about “Electrical Safety on the Water” at AGG1 Academy Session W55, on Wednesday, March 18, from 9:30-11 a.m., the company announced. Safe operation of electrical equipment on the water, like dredges and floating c
General Electric is working aggressively to refine plans for the sixth and final season of dredging, which will be performed later this year from May through November. When dredging is completed this year, GE will have removed 100 percent of the PCBs targeted by EPA for removal — more than 2.65 mill
MacArtney Underwater Technology and Sea-Bird Scientific have joined forces to deliver four oceanographic instrumentation solutions to research vessel operators in Turkey. According to MacArtney, Turkish research clients procured a combination of MacArtney CORMAC Q winches and Sea-Bird Scientific CTD
The multipurpose vessel Isaac Newton was launched at the Croatian shipyard Uljanik Brodogradiliste for Jan De Nul Group on 7 March 2015. The vessel can be deployed on a variety of projects: installing subsea cables, trench dredging and subsea rock installation, which definitely makes it unique. The
Huawei Marine has secured a contract from the government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to build the Ceiba-2 Submarine Cable System expected to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2015. The 290 km system will feature a design capacity of 8 Tbps and link the capital of Malabo to Bata,
Sistac Victoria, a purpose-built RINA-classed, DP-2 monohull dive support vessel has been delivered to Sistac Sistemas De Acesso, Brazil. The vessel, intended for service in Brazilian offshore waters, was designed by Incat Crowther in collaboration with the vessel’s builder, SeaSafe Barcos Manufactu
Fugro said it has received a writ of summons from Boskalis to force a shareholder vote at its annual shareholders meeting scheduled for April 30, 2015 on a recommendation in respect of one of Fugro’s three protective measures, i.e. the Foundation Continuity Fugro (“Stichting Continuïteit Fugro”). Fu
The Hamburg Port Authority has released a video of the Alexander von Humboldt, a huge trailing suction hopper dredger owned by the Jan De Nul Group, in action at the port. “The daily work of the hopper dredgers is very important. Without them, the port of Hamburg would simply silt up,” the Authority
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) and IHC Holland BV have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the construction of cutter suction hopper dredgers (CSDs) and trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). IHC, which has vast experience and proven capability to build world class dredging equ
Envisan France, the French branch of the environmental division of Jan De Nul Group, recently launched the construction of its Soil and Sediment Treatment Center in La Seyne-sur-Mer. This center will be specifically designed for the treatment and recycling of polluted sediments and soil. Based on it
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, joined by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, yesterday visited Ellicott Dredges, a South Baltimore manufacturer of dredging equipment. The Cabinet secretary toured the company that has designed and made more than 2,500 dredges for customers in more than 80 countries f
BOA IMR AS, a BOA Offshore AS subsidiary, has entered with certain conditions, into a shipbuilding contract for a light construction / IMR vessel with NorYards Fosen AS, with delivery scheduled for spring 2017 from its yard in Fosen, Norway. The vessel with main dimensions of 108 x 24 meters is desi
